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Our Prizes

The Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation jointly co-founded The Ridenhour Prizes in 2003. The inaugural prize recipients were Joe Wilson (Prize for Truth-Telling), Daniel Ellsberg (Courage Prize), and Deborah Scroggins for Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil – A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan (Book Prize). The Documentary Film Prize was added in 2011; that year, Ronit Avni, Julia Bacha, and Rula Salamehi won for Budrus.

The Government Accountability Project is the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns, and developing legal reforms, GAP's mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability.

POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms; its investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government.

FCG is a publicly funded foundation dedicated to the exposure and correction of corruption in the United States federal government, and accomplishes this work by funding organizations and journalists working to advance and sustain an open and accountable government.

ABOUT THE PRIZES

The annual Ridenhour Prizes recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society. These prizes memorialize the spirit of fearless truth-telling that whistleblower and investigative journalist Ron Ridenhour reflected throughout his extraordinary life and career. Each prize carries a $10,000 stipend. For more information, call Taya Kitman at 212-822-0252.

THE FERTEL FOUNDATION

Energized by a passion for weaving ideas and people together, the Fertel Foundation supports projects related to the arts and education. It has a special interest in initiatives from which new communities and new insights may emerge and those that challenge entrenched communities of power. The New Orleans-based foundation, established in 1999, also helps rebuild a better New Orleans — and create national models — in a post-Katrina world.

THE NATION INSTITUTE

A nonprofit media center, The Nation Institute is dedicated to strengthening the independent press and advancing social justice and civil rights. Our dynamic range of programs includes a bestselling book publishing imprint, Nation Books; our award-winning Investigative Fund, which supports groundbreaking investigative journalism; the widely read and syndicated website TomDispatch; the Victor S. Navasky Internship Program at The Nation magazine; and Journalism Fellowships that fund over 20 high-profile reporters every year.